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PA routinely denies reality as it invents its own heritage

Secretary-General of Fatah and the PLO factions in the Tyre branch Tawfiq Abdallah: "Thanks to Lebanon and its heroic resistance (i.e., Hezbollah)… which sacrificed everything precious to them (i.e., the 2023 Gaza war) in support of our heroic people in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and the stolen..."

Director-General of the PA Ministry of Culture and Antiquities in the Nablus District Dirgham Al-Fares: "The Palestinian people are a direct continuation of the original inhabitants from the Stone Age to the present (sic., see note below). The Palestinian people were pagan, who worshipped El, Baal,..."

Official PA TV, on the killing of 71-year-old Israeli archaeologist Maj. Ze'ev Erlich in a shooting attack by Lebanese terrorists at an archaeological fortress in southern Lebanon during the 2023 Gaza war – see note below Official PA TV "Israeli affairs expert" Fayez Abbas: "The operation in..."

PA Nablus District Governor Ghassan Daghlas: "We say to the world that we have antiquities. We have a history, and we have an existence [from] before the occupation arrived. The occupation wants to falsify the narrative and falsify the antiquities, and we say to the world that the occupation is..."

Fatah to kids: Palestinians will “liberate Palestine and nullify all that has happened as a result of the Balfour Declaration.”

Fatah leader: Attacks on Jews are best proof that the world is sick of them

Fatah Tubas Branch Secretary Mahmoud Sawafta: "This mighty people is loyal to the blood that is drawing the map of the precious homeland, the map of Haifa, Jaffa, Acre, Lod, and Ramle (i.e., all Israeli cities), and the map of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and the capital Jerusalem." [Official PA...

Lack of praise from the PA for Sinwar, but vows to continue to pursue goal of ‎destruction of Israel

Syrian political commentator Husam Shuaib: "Those who remain today in Palestine as occupiers are Talmudist foreigners who stole the name ‘Israel,' and with this name they succeeded in marketing a religion with which they are not in fact affiliated, but they convinced the West that they are..."

This is what eight years of demonization look like

Official PA TV host: "The sadism of the invaders is embodied in [the Jews.] They are the heirs of Zionist criminals [from Zionist leader] Herzl to Jabotinsky and until [Israeli President] Weizmann. The list of crime extends until reaching war criminal [Israeli Prime Minister] Netanyahu. All this..."

Palestinian Writers' Union General Secretariat member Talal Abu Afifa: "These Jews, ever since they arrived in Britain in the 18th century… at the start of the 20th century, they began to constitute a problem for Britain. Especially because the Jews, wherever they settle, they try to take control..."

PA Security Forces Maj. Gen. (ret.) and national security expert Ahmed Issa: "Israel is the only state that was not established by its people on its land. It was established through theft, and it is a product of a large colonialist project led by the colonialist states under the leadership of..."

Anniversary song and “highlights” left out civilian victims, pretending attack was ‎legitimate military battle

Fatah Spokesman in the Gaza Strip Mundhir Al-Hayek: "The occupation (i.e., Israel) demanded of the residents in the northern [Gaza Strip] area via loudspeakers: "Remain in your houses. Stay in your houses. Do not leave the houses." … There is no operation of expulsion from the northern [Gaza Strip]..."

PLO Representative to the UN and International Organizations in Geneva Ibrahim Khreisheh: "Israel is an occupying state, and it needs to end its occupation… We as a Palestinian people have been suffering from this occupation for 57 years until now... Now they (i.e., Israelis /Jews) are talking..."

Fatah official and An-Najah National University political science lecturer Raed Debiy: "We once again remind that [UN] Resolutions 242 and 338 (see note below -Ed.) and the establishment of a Palestinian state inthe June 4, 1967 borders are not the Palestinian demand and not the final right [of the..."

While the tank is seen going up in flames, a voice is heard saying in Arabic: "The soldiers were incinerated inside it." Text on screen: "Produced by the Islamic Resistance Movement [Hamas] – publicity division" [Hamas, Telegram channel, Oct. 7, 2024] The video includes a song commemorating the...

PA Deputy Minister of Jerusalem Affairs Sa'id Yaqin: "There is no future for the Arab nation as long as this colonialism is on the homeland. It is impossible – [in light of] this foreign, barbaric, murderous, oppressive entity (i.e., Israel) that is humiliating humanity with these measures – that..."

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: "The Al-Aqsa Mosque is a pure Islamic right. It is an exclusive Islamic waqf for Muslims (i.e., an inalienable religious endowment), and it is an exclusive right of the Muslims… At the UN podium, [PA]..."

Official PA TV host: "Genocide is the other face of the Talmudic (i.e., Jewish) Zionist teachings that are based on eradicating the Palestinian people through systematic massacres and mass murder and erasing the milestones of its physical, cultural, and intellectual existence on the land of..."

Fatah Secretary in Holland Zaid Tyam: "We did not attack anyone (sic., Hamas initiated the 2023 Gaza war). They [Israel] are attacking us, and they are harassing our people…" Senior Fatah official Jihad Ramadan: "The doctrine of the Zionist movement is a doctrine of replacement based on occupying..."

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “There is no bigger liar than the US administration, no bigger liar than [the US] exists.The American administration is inventing lies against us, as it has done through all the last decades… We are an...”

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “The Al-Aqsa Mosque is our mosque. They [the Jews] have no right to even one millimeter of it. It is an Islamic mosque, and if they are talking about an alleged Temple, let them look for it somewhere...”